Guess where I am not going to buy games any more.
I’m about as anti-AI as you can get, but that wasn’t a confirmation - it was a non-answer.
And considering how many things “AI” is getting crammed into, if they’d given a definitive answer, it wouldn’t have been possible to guarantee it - because they’re not in control of every business scenario in the industry.
I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions, willing to boycott a company that has done great things for media preservation over an inconvlusive statement about something that will likely have minimal or no effect on them, GOGs employees, or the user experience of their platform.
AI assistance is a tool. Why would they ban their developers and maintainers from using Windsurf, for instance? Or their design folks from using AI tools to help make mockups? It doesn’t make any sense. If their workforce wants to make use of AI tools responsibly… why is that a problem?
AI use does not mean they will start churning out slop. And, frankly, GOG is a software distributor/vendor… they don’t have creative control over the games they sell. The AI would be in the behind the scenes development of their platform, not in the products. The only way it’d affect users is if they put it in the user interface somehow (but… how and why would they?)
Because it will lead to buggy and insecure service, causing customer headaches. Imagine asking a random number generator to write your payment infrastructure!
I am genuinely curious why people are so angry and are jumping to conclusions,
because GoG was just sold, and its a tale as old as time for a beloved company, to get new ownership, and immediately start making stupid decisions and ruin everything.
GOG was bought by its own co-founder Michał Kiciński not BlackRock or something.
that wasn’t a confirmation - it was a non-answer.
Same thing, as far as I’m concerned.
And considering how many things “AI” is getting crammed into
What they’re using is clearly generative AI, meant to replace artists. It would be very easy to say they were no longer going to be doing that.
Their no DRM commitment and use of AI slop cancel each other out, in my view.
So much for the bright future under the new ownership. Meh, that didnt took long.
I love GOG and made tons purchases in the past if the games were avaivable there. I’d rather have my games entirely DRM free than having the conviences eg Steam brings to the table as a platform.
But the use of AI slop just isnt a good look. For me it only communicates one thing: We cut corners. Then not owning it up afterwards leaves a really bitter taste in my mouth. “Sorry, wont happen again. We wont use shitty genAI slop anymore on the shopfront.” That aint hard(edit: and would still leave the door open for rApId pRoTotYpInG internally). I still would have had a bit of trust issues. But with that corperate nonanswer i’m not really willing to spent money on GOG anymore.
Also i always fucking hated corpo AMAs. I would have thought GOG would be able to host an AMA which would feel atleast somewhat human. Like sure they’re still a business and have their obvious constraints what and how they can talk about things. But this? This was just a waste of time. Meh
i wonder if an organized boycott of GOG would be feasible, boycotting them until they stop using the slop
i would participate. however, until there is a boycott i still think DRM-free games are a good value proposition
It’s conflicting because the commitment to no DRM and the preservation efforts for old games, keeping them running on modern systems, are tremendously valuable in the current consumer-hostile gaming landscape.
you’re right, that’s why i think an organized boycott with a clear demand would be the best, instead of just going around saying “don’t use GOG they use AI”
i want GOG to stop using AI, i don’t want GOG to disappear
Gog is absolutely amazing. They have old games, no DRM and most games work out of the box with Linux.
Go complain about something else.
